Category Poetry-Notes

The Old Playhouse – Summary, Theme and Some Solved Questions

The Old Playhouse', selected from the book with the same title deals with Kamala Das' recurrent theme of failure and frustration in love and marriage. It vividly reveals the plight of a housewife who bewails that her egocentric and male chauvinist husband has virtually reduced her full-blooded and aspiring self to a mere entertaining toy.

Tree By Tina Morris – Summary and Questions and Answers

The poem Tree by Tina Morris deals with the importance of trees. The poet shares her anguish if there is no tree, no charm and life will be experienced. She shows her debt to trees. No life, in general, can be experienced without trees. We will be unable to hear the whispering of leaves if they get dry.

Summary and Analysis of The Tuft of Flowers

"The Tuft of Flowers" is a beautiful poem written by an American poet Robert Frost. On the surface, it appears that this poem is about nature, however, after deeper study, I can see that this poem deals with the themes of isolation and friendship, a sense of being alone, yet a need to belong.

Summary and Solved Questions of “Out, Out –” by Robert Frost

“Out, Out” is a poem about an everyday experience that turned tragic. The poem depicts a boy doing a man’s work, yet still has a mind of a child. In the end, lack of focus and the boy’s carelessness causes a fatal accident. While cutting wood,  he accidentally cuts his hand with the saw. He fears having his hand amputated but soon dies of shock, as life goes on around him.

We Wear the Mask – Text, Summary and Analysis

“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is about African Americans. The poem highlights the human tendency to hide our true feelings and thoughts from those around us by putting up a facade what T.S. Eliot calls “the face to meet the faces that you meet” in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Have you ever falsely answered “good” or “well” to someone who asked you how you were doing? In the poem, the speaker calls that facade a “mask.”